Journal articles: 'Sources Credibility'

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Kang, Hyunjin, Keunmin Bae, Shaoke Zhang, and S. Shyam Sundar. "Source Cues in Online News: Is the Proximate Source More Powerful than Distal Sources?" Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 88, no. 4 (2011): 719–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769901108800403.

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With the rise of intermediaries such as portals, social-bookmarking sites, and microblogs, online news is often carried through multiple sources. However, the perceived credibility of different source cues attached to a single news story can be quite different. So, how do readers evaluate the story? Do users factor in all distal sources, or do they simply refer to the proximate source delivering the news? Using a 2 (involvement) × 2 (proximal source credibility) × 2 (distal source credibility) full-factorial between-subjects experiment (N = 231), we found that while highly involved readers considered both types of sources, low-involvement readers were primarily influenced by the proximate source.

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Rigby, Michael, Shalmali Deshpande, and Mitch Blair. "Credibility in published data sources." Lancet 393, no. 10168 (2019): 225–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32844-7.

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Eng, Man Yan, and Johannes Urpelainen. "The Domestic Sources of Donor Credibility." Journal of Conflict Resolution 59, no. 2 (2013): 283–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002713503284.

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Tuzahra, Fatimah. "READING ONLINE: EVALUATION OF ONLINE SOURCES CREDIBILITY." Journal of Research on Language Education 2, no. 1 (2021): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.33365/jorle.v2i1.1007.

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The vast amount of online information demands readers to check its credibility since fabricated information has widely been misused and also supported by a lack of filters in web-based sources in ensuring its quality. In practice, checking the credibility of an online source is not an easy task to do as searchers need to consider several aspects in its application. This happens due to some factors, such as language and searchers’ willingness in identifying the quality of online information. This paper focuses on the evaluation of online sources' credibility covering scholars’ definitions of online sources credibility, English-native and foreign searchers’ perspective in judging online sources, and varied criteria applied in online sources credibility in which give insight for readers about this issue and provide references for further study.

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Lee, Yi-Chen, Bo-Chun Shen, and Choon Ling Sia. "Bringing Credibility Through Portals." Journal of Database Management 33, no. 1 (2022): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jdm.313968.

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This study explores how the quality and credibility of information on healthcare websites can be enhanced through the simultaneous delivery of multiple information sources. Such information integration is achieved using a new experimental Web API called Portals. Accessing multiple information sources is salient due to the uncertainty surrounding an overwhelming amount of online health information that can be incorrect or misleading. When readers seek health information, the almost instantaneous verification that comes with the possibility of multiple-sources assessment is critical. This research provides novel insights that establish the value of reliably integrating health content from multiple sources (websites). The behavioral differences when people encounter consistent or inconsistent information from multiple-websites integration are investigated, and the implication of the findings are discussed. The research findings guide how health-related websites can help online seekers access higher-quality healthcare websites.

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Goswami, Pooja, and Dr Kiran Rana. "Credibility of Different Agricultural Information Sources Utilized by Farm Women of Uttarakhand." International Journal of Advances in Agricultural Science and Technology 8, no. 7 (2021): 48–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.47856/ijaast.2021.v08i7.006.

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Credibility of agricultural information sources affects the adoption of new or improved agricultural practices by farmers. Credibility refers to perceived trustworthiness accorded to a source by its audience at any given time and situation. Therefore, Credible sources of agriculture information play major role in diffusion of agriculture innovations. This study was carried out in Nainital district of Uttarakhand state with specific objective to explore the relative credibility of information sources as accorded by the farm women of the region. A sample of 120 farm women was selected by PPS (Probability proportional to size) sampling method. The agriculture information sources were categorized into three broad heads namely personal localite, personal cosmopolite and mass media. It was found that majority (62.5%) of respondents had „medium‟ credibility towards agriculture information sources followed by 20 per cent having low credibility and only 17.5 per cent had high credibility to different agriculture information sources. It was further found that family members, KVK officials and newspaper were considered as the most credible sources of agricultural information among personal localite, personal cosmopolite and mass media sources.

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Feng, Yanling, Jixiong Hu, Rui Duan, and Zhuming Chen. "Credibility Assessment Method of Sensor Data Based on Multi-Source Heterogeneous Information Fusion." Sensors 21, no. 7 (2021): 2542. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21072542.

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The credibility of sensor data is essential for security monitoring. High-credibility data are the precondition for utilizing data and data analysis, but the existing data credibility evaluation methods rarely consider the spatio-temporal relationship between data sources, which usually leads to low accuracy and low flexibility. In order to solve this problem, a new credibility evaluation method is proposed in this article, which includes two factors: the spatio-temporal relationship between data sources and the temporal correlation between time series data. First, the spatio-temporal relationship was used to obtain the credibility of data sources. Then, the combined credibility of data was calculated based on the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model and back propagation (BP) neural network. Finally, the comprehensive data reliability for evaluating data quality can be acquired based on the credibility of data sources and combined data credibility. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Clark, Christopher H., Mardi Schmeichel, and H. James Garrett. "Social Studies Teacher Perceptions of News Source Credibility." Educational Researcher 49, no. 4 (2020): 262–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0013189x20909823.

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Politically tumultuous times have created a problematic space for teachers who include the news in their classrooms. Few studies have explored perceptions of news credibility among secondary social studies teachers, the educators most likely to regularly incorporate news media into their classrooms. We investigated teachers’ operational definitions of credibility and the relationships between political ideology and assessments of news source credibility. Most teachers in this study used either static or dynamic definitions to describe news media sources’ credibility. Further, teachers’ conceptualizations of credibility and perceived ideological differences with news sources were associated with how credible teachers found each source. These results indicate potential inconsistencies in how news credibility is defined and possible political bias in which sources social studies teachers use as exemplars of credibility.

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Li, You, and Ye Wang. "Brand disclosure and source partiality affect native advertising recognition and media credibility." Newspaper Research Journal 40, no. 3 (2019): 299–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739532919849472.

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This study explores how textual characteristics of native advertising affected audiences’ advertising recognition and perceived message credibility and media channel credibility. Findings show that repeated mentioning of brand names increased audiences’ advertising recognition but did not affect perceived message credibility or media credibility. Using sponsor-affiliated sources increased audiences’ advertising recognition but decreased perceived message credibility and media credibility. The study recommends frequent and early sponsorship disclosure and cautions against using sponsor-affiliated sources in native advertising.

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Sternadori, Miglena Mantcheva, and Esther Thorson. "Anonymous Sources Harm Credibility of All Stories." Newspaper Research Journal 30, no. 4 (2009): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/073953290903000405.

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Findings confirm the use of anonymous sources has a negative effect on readers' perceptions of story credibility. Stories of presumably higher quality elicited more believability toward sources who disagree with the main findings of the story.

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Hammond, Sharon Lee. "Health Advertising: The Credibility of Organizational Sources." Annals of the International Communication Association 10, no. 1 (1987): 673–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23808985.1987.11678665.

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Peters, Hans Peter. "The credibility of information sources in West Germany after the Chernobyl disaster." Public Understanding of Science 1, no. 3 (1992): 325–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/1/3/006.

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In West Germany the `information disaster' after Chernobyl offered an opportunity to study the credibility of different information sources. A representative survey conducted in May 1987 of the West German population showed that on average the Federal Government—although heavily criticized because of its information policy and risk management—was rated most credible while the nuclear industry was judged least credible. On the whole, mean credibility ratings differed surprisingly little between sources; ratings of competence and public interest orientation varied more. These variables, interpreted as the classical credibility factors `expertise' and `trustworthiness', were important predictors of credibility. But beliefs and expectations recipients posess about individual sources also appear to influence credibility.

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Faraon, Montathar, Agnieszka Jaff, Liegi Paschoalini Nepomuceno, and Victor Villavicencio. "Fake News and Aggregated Credibility." International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence 11, no. 4 (2020): 93–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijaci.20201001.oa1.

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The accelerated spread of fake news via the internet and social media such as Facebook and Twitter have created a debate concerning the credibility of sources online. Assessing the credibility of these sources is generally a complex task and cannot solely rely on computer-based algorithms as evaluation still requires human intelligence. The research question guiding this article deals with the conceptualization of a theoretically anchored concept of a participatory and co-creative medium for evaluation of sources online. The concept-driven design research methodology was applied to address the research question, which consisted of seven activities that unify design and theory. The result of this article is a proposed concept that aims to support the assessment of the credibility of sources online using crowdsourcing as an approach for evaluation. The practical implications of the proposed concept could be to constrain the spread of fake news, strengthen online democratic discourse, and potentially improve the quality of online information.

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Diel, Stan, and Chris Roberts. "News story aggregation and perceived credibility." Newspaper Research Journal 42, no. 2 (2021): 162–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07395329211013488.

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The practice of aggregating news content—repurposing content created by other news organizations—raises questions about credibility. This experimental study suggests that news organizations can boost credibility of aggregated content by more clearly identifying originating sources than by increasing or decreasing the use of aggregation. Relationships between levels of aggregation and credibility showed little or no significance, while relationships between credibility and receivers’ confidence in identifying originating sources were significant.

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Oeldorf-Hirsch, Anne, and Christina L. DeVoss. "Who Posted That Story? Processing Layered Sources in Facebook News Posts." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 97, no. 1 (2019): 141–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077699019857673.

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With social media platforms becoming primary news sources, concerns about credibility judgments and knowledge grow. This study ( N = 233) experimentally tests the effects of multiple source cues on Facebook news posts on credibility and knowledge. Judgments of story credibility were directly influenced by media source cues, but not friend source cues. Involvement in the source topic moderated the effects of these source cues, such that particular combinations influenced credibility differently, and also influenced cognitive elaboration about the topic. Theoretical implications for cognitive mediation model of learning from the news and the heuristic-systematic model of information processing are presented.

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Pjesivac, Ivanka, Nicholas Geidner, and Jaclyn Cameron. "Social credibility online: The role of online comments in assessing news article credibility." Newspaper Research Journal 39, no. 1 (2018): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739532918761065.

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This 2 × 2 experimental study (N = 196) tested the effects of source expertise and opinion valence in readers’ comments on the credibility of an online news story about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Source expertise had a significant influence on perceptions of article credibility; articles were judged more credible when public comments embedded in the story were from expert sources (e.g., scientists) rather than nonexpert sources (e.g., Twitter users). Effects were larger on high-frequency news users, regardless of whether comments were for or against GMOs. Results suggest that Internet users mainly use the peripheral or heuristic route of information processing to evaluate online news credibility. The importance for online journalism of social heuristics via opinions of other people is discussed.

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Sanz-Menéndez, Luis, and Laura Cruz-Castro. "The credibility of scientific communication sources regarding climate change: A population-based survey experiment." Public Understanding of Science 28, no. 5 (2019): 534–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662519840946.

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This article analyses whether different institutional sources of scientific information have an impact on its credibility. Through a population-based survey experiment of a national representative sample of the Spanish public, we measure the credibility that citizens attribute to scientific information on the evolution of CO2 emissions disclosed by different institutional sources (business associations, government, non-government environmental organisations, international bodies and national research institutions). The findings show that an institutional credibility gap exists in science communication. We also investigate the factors accounting for the credibility of the different institutional sources by examining variables related to knowledge, interest, trust, reputation, deference, attitudes, values and personal characteristics. Exploratory regression analyses reveal that identical variables can produce different effects on the credibility of scientific information, depending on the institutional source to which it is attributed.

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Paik, Hyesun. "Aspects of Credibility Evaluation in College Students' Reading of Internet Sources: A Focus on Wiki Sites." Korean Society of Culture and Convergence 45, no. 12 (2023): 1383–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2023.12.45.12.1383.

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This study aims to examine how college students evaluate the credibility Wiki sites. For this purpose, 286 college students were surveyed on credibility-releated questions for Wikipedia and NamuWiki. Results indicated that college students regarded Wikipedia as moderately credible, with an average of 3.25 for Wikipedia and 3.14 for NamuWiki. When we analyzed the difference in credibility evaluations between Wikipedia and NamuWiki, we found that Wikipedia was deemed more credible than NamuWiki for most questions, but NamuWiki was statistically significantly higher for “easy to understand”. When looking at the relationship between the credibility of wiki sites and college students' use of wiki sites, both source credibility and content credibility were significantly related. We found that college students perceived the credibility of wiki sites as “moderate” but used them for reasons of “newness” and “easy explanation”. It is necessary to develop evaluation indicators that take into account the characteristics of Internet sites and prepare educational measures on credibility evaluation in Internet reading.

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Rigby, Michael, Shalmali Deshpande, and Mitch Blair. "Another blow to credibility in published data sources." Lancet 394, no. 10192 (2019): 26–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)31251-6.

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Smith, Ron F. "Impact of Unnamed Sources on Credibility Not Certain." Newspaper Research Journal 28, no. 3 (2007): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/073953290702800302.

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Danilovic, Vesna. "The Sources of Threat Credibility in Extended Deterrence." Journal of Conflict Resolution 45, no. 3 (2001): 341–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002701045003005.

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Aladhadh, Suliman, Xiuzhen Zhang, and Mark Sanderson. "Location impact on source and linguistic features for information credibility of social media." Online Information Review 43, no. 1 (2019): 89–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-03-2018-0087.

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PurposeSocial media platforms provide a source of information about events. However, this information may not be credible, and the distance between an information source and the event may impact on that credibility. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to address an understanding of the relationship between sources, physical distance from that event and the impact on credibility in social media.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors focus on the impact of location on the distribution of content sources (informativeness and source) for different events, and identify the semantic features of the sources and the content of different credibility levels.FindingsThe study found that source location impacts on the number of sources across different events. Location also impacts on the proportion of semantic features in social media content.Research limitations/implicationsThis study illustrated the influence of location on credibility in social media. The study provided an overview of the relationship between content types including semantic features, the source and event locations. However, the authors will include the findings of this study to build the credibility model in the future research.Practical implicationsThe results of this study provide a new understanding of reasons behind the overestimation problem in current credibility models when applied to different domains: such models need to be trained on data from the same place of event, as that can make the model more stable.Originality/valueThis study investigates several events – including crisis, politics and entertainment – with steady methodology. This gives new insights about the distribution of sources, credibility and other information types within and outside the country of an event. Also, this study used the power of location to find alternative approaches to assess credibility in social media.

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Nielsen, Jens Perch, and Bjørn Lunding Sandqvist. "Credibility Weighted Hazard Estimation." ASTIN Bulletin 30, no. 2 (2000): 405–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/ast.30.2.504643.

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AbstractCredibility weighting is helpful in many insurance applications where sparse data crave information from other sources of data. In this paper we aim at estimating a hazard curve using the nonparametric kernel method, where a credibility weighting principle is used locally, so that areas of sparse data for one subgroup can be alleviated by available information from other subgroups. The credibility estimator is found through a Hilbert space projection formulation of Buhlmann-Straub's credibility approach.

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Xu, Jingjun, Izak Benbasat, and Ronald T. Cenfetelli. "The Effects of Recommendation Sources and Content on Source Credibility and Product Informativeness." Academy of Management Proceedings 2012, no. 1 (2012): 11841. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2012.11841abstract.

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Pearson, George DH, and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick. "Perusing pages and skimming screens: Exploring differing patterns of selective exposure to hard news and professional sources in online and print news." New Media & Society 20, no. 10 (2018): 3580–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444818755565.

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Changing structures to online news have instigated concerns that the electorate may predominantly consume soft news for entertainment purposes while neglecting public affairs information. The Internet in particular brought an increase in outlets, including unconventional low-credibility sources. A 2 × 2 × 2 within-subjects experiment ( n = 197) investigated whether delivery format (print vs online) and source type (high vs low credibility) shape the extent to which recipients select different types of news (public affairs news vs soft news). Participants browsed 32 news items, half of them hard news and the other half soft news, either associated with high- or low-credibility sources, and did so online or via print magazine. Results show that greater preference for online news fostered selective exposure to hard news. Greater habitual news use via social media reduced selective exposure to news from high-credibility sources.

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Bowen‐Ziecheck, Aaron, and Joan C. Bartlett. "The COVID‐19 Pandemic's Impact on Credibility of Health Sources Among Undergraduate Students." Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 60, no. 1 (2023): 889–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pra2.888.

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ABSTRACTThe following poster reports the preliminary results of a comparison between a 2017 survey on health information and the same survey administered in 2023. The primary research question is: How did the COVID‐19 pandemic impact undergraduate students' judgement of credibility in health information sources? Recent research has shown that student health information seeking has changed around the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, the research has not noted whether the pandemic has had a lasting impact on credibility of sources during health information seeking at the presumptive tail end of the pandemic in 2023. The original study in 2017 surveyed the undergraduate population of McGill University. The same survey was readministered in 2023, with COVID‐19 specific questions added. The preliminary analysis suggests that the COVID‐19 pandemic impacted students' judgement of credibility in health information sources. There were negative changes in the perceived credibility of family/friends, well‐known websites, wiki, blogs/forums, and social media for both everyday life health and COVID‐19 information from 2017 to 2023. Conversely, government/university, scholarly books/journals, and TV/radio all saw increases in perceived credibility for both everyday life health and COVID‐19 information.

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Allchin, Douglas. "The Credibility Game." American Biology Teacher 82, no. 8 (2020): 535–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2020.82.8.535.

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Science denial, misinformation, and science con-artists are on the rise. We are plagued by anti-vaxxers, climate change naysayers, and promoters of ineffective fad diets and medical cures. The scientifically literate citizen or consumer needs skills in differentiating good science and trustworthy sources from impostors. Here, I present a series of student-centered activities that help students inquire into the nature of credibility and the problems of expertise, mediated knowledge, and science communication. I open with a playful guessing game about “fantastic beasts” reported in the 16th century, then follow with more modern examples. I then describe a science version of “To Tell the Truth,” a reflective exercise on “Finding the Expert,” and then a student opportunity to explore deceptive strategies by trying to bluff their classmates with false news stories about science. These all develop basic concepts in science media literacy and prepare students for more serious investigation into a contemporary scientific controversy.

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Fletcher, Richard, Steve Schifferes, and Neil Thurman. "Building the ‘Truthmeter’: Training algorithms to help journalists assess the credibility of social media sources." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 26, no. 1 (2017): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856517714955.

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Social media is now used as an information source in many different contexts. For professional journalists, the use of social media for news production creates new challenges for the verification process. This article describes the development and evaluation of the ‘Truthmeter’ – a tool that automatically scores the journalistic credibility of social media contributors in order to inform overall credibility assessments. The Truthmeter was evaluated using a three-stage process that used both qualitative and quantitative methods, consisting of (1) obtaining a ground truth, (2) building a description of existing practices and (3) calibration, modification and testing. As a result of the evaluation process, which could be generalized and applied in other contexts, the Truthmeter produced credibility scores that were closely aligned with those of trainee journalists. Substantively, the evaluation also highlighted the importance of ‘relational’ credibility assessments, where credibility may be attributed based on networked connections to other credible contributors.

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Amini, Arash, Yigit Ege Bayiz, Ashwin Ram, Radu Marculescu, and Ufuk Topcu. "News Source Credibility Assessment: A Reddit Case Study." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 19 (June 7, 2025): 68–82. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35804.

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We present a transformer-based model for credibility assessment, CREDiBERT (CREDibility assessment using Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers), fine-tuned for Reddit submissions focusing on political discourse. We adopt a semi-supervised training approach for CREDiBERT, leveraging the community structure of Reddit. By encoding submission content using CREDiBERT and integrating it with a classification neural network, we improve the credibility assessment for Reddit submission by 3% in F1 score compared to existing methods. Additionally, we introduce a new version of the post-to-post network in Reddit that efficiently encodes user interactions to enhance the credibility assessment task by 8% in the F1 score. We demonstrate CREDiBERT's applicability by evaluating the susceptibility of Reddit communities to different topics and assessing the credibility score of unseen sources.

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Yalakonda, Ramu, and Karthikeyan Chandrasekaran. "Credibility of Information Sources and Channels as Perceived by Paddy Farmers in Telangana State." Indian Journal of Extension Education 59, no. 1 (2023): 170–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59137.

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This paper investigates perceived credibility of paddy farmers’ information sources and channels. The dissemination of agricultural information to farmers has been one of the crucial factors for the transmission of newer and relevant technologies. Farmers’ information needs are transforming to more need-based than demand-driven. A sum of 120 respondents was selected based on proportionate random sampling from two villages selected from each of the two blocks of Khammam district. Mean per cent score was used for obtaining the degree of credibility of sources and channels. Opinion leaders in personal localite sources, agricultural scientists in personal cosmopolite sources, result demonstration in personal cosmopolite channels and television in impersonal cosmopolite channels were perceived as highly credible by paddy farmers. One-third of respondents had high level of overall credibility.

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Lirtzman, Sidney I., and Avichai Shuv-Ami. "Credibility of Sources of Communication on Products' Safety Hazards." Psychological Reports 58, no. 3 (1986): 707–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1986.58.3.707.

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Fear-inducing communications about actual or potential safety hazards of products, are increasingly encountered. These emanate mainly from government agencies and reflect the belief that rational consumers will act to minimize potential risk. Research has shown that credibility of a message source is directly related to effectiveness and persuasion of one message. Although observers have assumed that use of government sources would maximize source credibility in the case of communications about products' safety hazards, recent analyses suggest that this may not be the case. The present research tests two hypotheses with respect to communications of hazard, that government agencies will not necessarily achieve the source with highest credibility among consumers, and that attitude change will be greater among consumers perceiving a source other than the government to be the most credible. Findings are repotted for three studies of different samples of consumers. One involved an experiment in which consumers were exposed to safety warnings supposedly issued by a government agency about a common product. Two involved surveys, the first in the wake of the Tylenol poisonings and the second in the context of industrial buying practices in industrial settings. Results support the hypotheses. Theoretical bases for such findings are offered, and implications for public policy ate discussed.

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Sery, A. S. "Data credibility when populating ontologies and knowledge graphs." Ontology of Designing 13, no. 1 (2023): 113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2223-9537-2023-13-1-113-124.

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The problem of assessing trust in the information extracted from textual sources to populate ontologies or knowledge graphs is considered. For a unit of information or a fact, the minimum knowledge about an instance of the subject area, expressed by a single RDF triplet, is taken. The paper provides a description of a probabilistic trust evaluation model based on Markov random processes. When assessing, the model is built on the basis of available information about sources, taking into account previously extracted data. A method for assessing the credibility of information with parallel weighting of sources is also provided. The proposed approach is in demand when the quality of the data sources is unknown or unavailable. As part of testing the model, sets of numerical data of various sizes were automatically generated, experiments were carried out to weigh the sources and assess trust in the information extracted from them. It was shown that in most cases the weights of the sources calculated on the basis of the proposed model are the greater, the smaller the average deviation of the information they provide from the true one, and the confidence in facts increases with decreasing distance to the true data. Comparison with data aggregation models is made. In most cases, the aggregation based on the trust score showed the smallest average deviation from the true data among the considered models. The obtained results show that the proposed model is effective in comparison with other similar models and can be used in problems of assessing trust in facts represented by real numbers.

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Johnson, Thomas J., and Barbara K. Kaye. "Webelievability: A Path Model Examining How Convenience and Reliance Predict Online Credibility." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 79, no. 3 (2002): 619–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900207900306.

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This study surveyed politically interested Internet users online during the 2000 campaign to examine whether they view Internet sources as credible and whether reliance on the Web, reliance on traditional sources, convenience of using the Web, or political and demographic variables predict credibility of online media. A greater percentage of respondents judged online media credible in 2000 than in the 1996 presidential campaign. Reliance on traditional media proved the best predictor of online credibility followed by political trust and convenience. On the other hand, reliance on the Web did not influence credibility of information found there.

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Trocchi, Vanessa, Anabel Quan‐Haase, and Victoria L. Rubin. "Health Advice from Instagram Influencers on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): Their Strategies to Establish and Manipulate Credibility." Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 61, no. 1 (2024): 1107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1200.

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ABSTRACTIndividuals with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) turn to Instagram influencers as an alternative or complementary PCOS information source to their physicians. However, the ambiguous qualifications of influencers, and contradicting claims regarding how to manage PCOS, make it difficult to identify credible sources. Using a directed qualitative content analysis, we examined the range of strategies that 10 Instagram PCOS influencers used to signal credibility. We found that influencers utilized a range of pseudo‐credibility strategies. Another key contribution of the study is a description of how PCOS influencers reference sources to signal credibility. We also found that Instagram PCOS influencers discuss what it means to be healthy with PCOS, and we describe how they contribute to a wider cultural participation in healthism. The findings build upon the source credibility literature to identify novel credibility cues used by influencers as social media platforms evolve, and further, reveal the underlying healthism‐centric discourse of PCOS influencers.

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Nekmat, Elmie, Karla K. Gower, Shuhua Zhou, and Miriam Metzger. "Connective-Collective Action on Social Media: Moderated Mediation of Cognitive Elaboration and Perceived Source Credibility on Personalness of Source." Communication Research 46, no. 1 (2015): 62–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650215609676.

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Taking the logic of online connective action from an information-processing viewpoint, an online experiment ( N = 208) was done to examine whether individuals’ cognitive elaboration on messages received from different sources (personal: friends, family, vs. impersonal: organization) mediates their willingness to engage in connective-type collective activities on social media (e.g., commenting, “Liking”); and whether this indirect influence is biased by perceived source credibility. Results revealed significant influence from personal sources. Cognitive elaboration positively mediates this influence and was conditionally affected by high source credibility. Direct influence from personal issue involvement and perceived self and technological efficacy was also observed. Theoretical contributions (i.e., cognitive demands at individual level) and practical implications (i.e., enhancing organizational credibility, popularity of easy-to-do acts) are discussed.

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Metzger, Miriam J., Ethan H. Hartsell, and Andrew J. Flanagin. "Cognitive Dissonance or Credibility? A Comparison of Two Theoretical Explanations for Selective Exposure to Partisan News." Communication Research 47, no. 1 (2015): 3–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650215613136.

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Selective exposure research indicates that news consumers tend to seek out attitude-consistent information and avoid attitude-challenging information. This study examines online news credibility and cognitive dissonance as theoretical explanations for partisan selective exposure behavior. After viewing an attitudinally consistent, challenging, or politically balanced online news source, cognitive dissonance, credibility perceptions, and likelihood of selective exposure were measured. Results showed that people judge attitude-consistent and neutral news sources as more credible than attitude-challenging news sources, and although people experience slightly more cognitive dissonance when exposed to attitude-challenging news sources, overall dissonance levels were quite low. These results refute the cognitive dissonance explanation for selective exposure and suggest a new explanation that is based on credibility perceptions rather than psychological discomfort with attitude-challenging information.

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Engstrom, Erika. "Audiences' Perceptions of Sources' Credibility in a Television Interview Setting." Perceptual and Motor Skills 83, no. 2 (1996): 579–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1996.83.2.579.

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This experiment examined the differences between older and younger men and women's evaluations of differently dressed sources' credibility. 165 subjects viewed simulated interviews for television in which male and female sources dressed either conservatively or casually. Subjects then rated them according to semantic-differential scales which measured targets' competence, character, and dynamism. Subjects were categorized by age and sex. Over-all, younger women (those between the ages of 18 and 34 years) gave high ratings of competence, character, and dynamism to all sources regardless of clothing style, while older women (those 35 years and older) gave the lowest ratings. This was especially noted for their evaluations of female sources. Men, regardless of age rated all sources similarly.

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Karduni, Alireza, Ryan Wesslen, Douglas Markant, and Wenwen Dou. "Images, Emotions, and Credibility: Effect of Emotional Facial Expressions on Perceptions of News Content Bias and Source Credibility in Social Media." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 17 (June 2, 2023): 470–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22161.

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Images are an indispensable part of the news we consume. Highly emotional images from mainstream and misinformation sources can greatly influence our trust in the news. We present two studies on the effects of emotional facial images on users' perception of bias in news content and the credibility of sources. In study 1, we investigate the impact of repeated exposure to content with images containing positive or negative facial expressions on users’ judgements of source credibility and bias. In study 2, we focus on sources' systematic emotional portrayal of specific politicians. Our results show the presence of negative (angry) facial emotions can lead to perceptions of higher bias in content. We also find that systematic portrayal negative portrayal of different politicians leads to lower perceptions of source credibility. These results highlight how implicit visual propositions manifested by emotions in facial expressions might have a substantial effect on our trust in news.

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Roth-Cohen, Osnat, Shalom Levy, and Avi Zigdon. "The Mediated Role of Credibility on Information Sources and Patient Awareness toward Patient Rights." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 16 (2021): 8628. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168628.

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Although patient rights are an important issue, this remains an understudied research area. Patients are unaware of their rights, lacking control of health care treatments they might deserve. This can contribute to sustaining inequality as well as failure in achieving welfare policy goals. Drawing on channel complementarity theory, the current study explored patients’ awareness toward their rights, and the credibility of information sources related to patient rights. In a web-based survey, 994 Israeli participants, suffering from chronic illness and using health services, were recruited. To examine the study’s theoretical framework and relationships among the constructs and test the hypotheses, a path analysis was conducted using Structural Equation Modeling. The research model depicts direct and indirect relationships between constructs, and the relevant coefficients. The results show a direct and positive interaction between information credibility and patient rights awareness (β = 0.10, p = 0.019). Information credibility partially mediates the relationship between public service information sources and patient rights awareness (bootstrap with 95% CI: 0.01–0.07; p = 0.015). The mass media information sources construct is directly and positively related to information credibility (β = 0.36, p = 0.000). Age was found as a moderator, indicating that information credibility is a factor only at lower ages. Therefore, patient rights should be systematically and reliably accessible in order to raise the awareness and trust of chronic patients regarding information about patient rights. Using planned health communication campaigns mainly via public service sources that are perceived as trustworthy can help contribute to approach patients more effectively and provide them with accessible and detailed information about their rights.

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Kalafatis, Stavros P., Debra Riley, Markos H. Tsogas, and Jimmy Clodine-Florent. "The Effects of Source Credibility and Message Variation on Mail Survey Response Behaviour." International Journal of Market Research 54, no. 3 (2012): 391–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.2501/ijmr-54-3-391-406.

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Grounded on persuasive communications theory, the impact of source credibility and message variation on response behaviour towards a mail survey on a sample of the general public are examined. An experimental design comprising three levels (high, medium and low) of these variables is employed. Source credibility and the interaction of message variation (i.e. usefulness of the study) and source credibility have a significant impact on response rate. Overemphasising the usefulness of a study is found to be counterproductive. For sources that are arguably average or lower in credibility, a strongly worded message (in terms of usefulness) was less effective than more modest objectives.

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Choi, Youngjoon, Benjamin Hickerson, and Deborah Kerstetter. "Understanding the Sources of Online Travel Information." Journal of Travel Research 57, no. 1 (2017): 116–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287516683833.

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Given that online travel media enable multilateral communication patterns in destination marketing, this study investigates technical attributes presenting the number and type of source-related visual cues. From a technological perspective, the sources of online travel information can be conceptualized in terms of specialization, endorsement, and other users’ star rating to reflect technological functions and psychological effects. An experiment with a 2 (specialization: a generalist website vs. a specialist website) × 2 (endorsement: absence vs. presence) × 3 (star rating: low vs. medium vs. high) factorial between-subjects design was conducted to test the relationships between source-related visual cues, cue-induced perceptions, information credibility, and destination images. This study found that each source-related visual cue produced distinctive psychological effects on a tourist’s perceptions. Furthermore, these cue-induced perceptions were influential to tourists’ judgment of information credibility, which was positively related to destination images and behavioral intention.

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Bernicchia-Freeman, Zoé. "Gendered Credibility on Trial." Western Journal of Legal Studies 16, no. 1 (2025): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5206/uwojls.v16i1.17012.

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This article provides a comprehensive historical account of the doctrine of recent complaint, an evidence law principle which expressly disadvantages sexual assault survivors if they do not disclose their assault at the first reasonable opportunity. Parliament did not abrogate this doctrine until 1983. Given that most sexual assault complainants are women, the gendered foundations of this doctrine (and its survival until the late 20th century) must be interrogated. Others have explored the doctrine’s abrogation, but this article’s original contributions include an analysis of primary sources that are largely unexamined by the literature (e.g., rape crisis centre reports, Parliamentary debates). This article shows that, despite considerable attempts from both Parliament and the SCC, many stereotypes and rape myths underpinning the doctrine of recent complaint are alive and well in Canadian courts. Most importantly, by providing a detailed overview of Parliamentary records leading up to 1983, this work highlights predictive concerns that were disregarded and have now come to fruition.

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Mercer, Molly. "How Do Investors Assess the Credibility of Management Disclosures?" Accounting Horizons 18, no. 3 (2004): 185–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/acch.2004.18.3.185.

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This paper synthesizes the existing literature on disclosure credibility and identifies four factors that investors consider when assessing the credibility of a management disclosure: (1) situational incentives at the time of the disclosure, (2) management's credibility (i.e., competence and trustworthiness), (3) the levels of external and internal assurance, and (4) characteristics of the disclosure itself. Disclosure credibility tends to be higher when management has few incentives to mislead investors and/or is perceived to be competent and trustworthy. Validation by external or internal sources also can enhance a disclosure's credibility. Moreover, disclosure credibility is influenced by various characteristics of the disclosure itself, such as its precision, venue, timing, inherent plausibility, and amount of supporting information.

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Dominic, Egede Dominion, Mastura Mahamed, Zulhamri Abdullah, Norliana Binti Hashim, and Inyama Victor Uwadiegwu. "Crisis Communication: Conceptualizing the Efficacy of Information Source Credibility on Crisis Message Acceptability and Reputation Sustainability." Studies in Media and Communication 11, no. 7 (2023): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v11i7.6361.

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Recent studies have shown that social media users' perception of message acceptance and compliance during a crisis depends on its source credibility, and this has been relatively underexplored in the crisis communication context. The credibility of social media/information sources influences the users' attitudes and information quality, public engagement, and information believability during a crisis. In response to crisis communication, scholars revealed that despite the wide use of SCCT by crisis communication researchers, the theory still has limitations in evaluating factors that could potentially affect an organizational reputation. Response source credibility is a factor that influences crisis response strategies and sustains reputation. During emergencies, unreliable and untrustworthy sources of information and media coverage of content perceived as threatening can elicit aversive emotions, such as distress, depression, and mental damage, and further generate more crises. This study proposes a conceptual model for the efficacy of source credibility on message (crisis response) acceptability and reputation sustainability. To monitor the streams of research conducted on source credibility, the authors used the Scopus database to examine the numbers of research on source credibility in the domain of crisis communication and subject areas. The results revealed that the perceived information source credibility during a crisis influences message acceptance and mediates the relationships between crisis response strategies and reputation. The paper will help the crisis management team appreciate the value of source credibility and save reputation during a crisis.

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Silvhiany, Sary, Siti Huzaifah, and Ismet Ismet. "Critical Digital Literacy: EFL Students’ Ability to Evaluate Online Sources." Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics 6, no. 1 (2021): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.21462/ijefl.v6i1.364.

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The advancement of Internet-based technologies and the new media ecology have contributed to the increased reliance on online sources in both the academic and the non-academic contexts. This study investigated how students evaluated the credibility of online information and the bias that might have influenced the content of the information. 152 EFL students responded to the online critical literacy assessment, which consisted of six tasks: evaluating the credibility of visual information, evaluating WhatsApp message, comparing and evaluating websites, distinguishing between news and sponsored content, evaluating the credibility of claim in a YouTube video, and evaluating an Instagram post. The results of the study showed that the students were easily deceived by the online information they read from various online media. They particularly struggled to detect the unsubstantiated claims from the YouTube video. Despite being a generation Z who frequently used social media and various online sources in their daily lives, the students could not critically evaluate the claims posted on these platforms. Implications of this study include the need to incorporate critical digital literacy in the language skill courses and deliberate exposure to strategies in evaluating online sources.

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Gupta, Shiksha, and Gordhan K. Saini. "Information Source Credibility and Job Seekers’ Intention to Apply: The Mediating Role of Brands." Global Business Review 21, no. 3 (2018): 743–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972150918778910.

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In this article, we first examine the role of perceived credibility of three information sources—customer reviews, employee testimonials and corporate communication in influencing a job seeker’s intention to apply; second, we examine the mediating role of three brand application levels (i.e., product brand, employer brand and corporate brand) between the perceived credibility of information sources and a job seeker’s intention to apply. Using a standard questionnaire, data from 385 respondents were collected and analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM). The results show that for intention to apply, the perceived credibility of employee testimonials and corporate communication was higher than the perceived credibility of customer reviews. The employer brand ‘fully’ mediates the relationship between the perceived credibility of employee testimonials and intention to apply, while the corporate brand ‘partially’ mediates the relationship between the perceived credibility of corporate communication and intention to apply. Human resource (HR) managers may thereby use employee testimonials for attracting a greater number of applications, and such recruitment communications can be complemented by corporate communication for recruitment effectiveness. Organizations looking to improve their employer brand may focus on using employee testimonials and corporate communication as their principle branding activities. This study contributes to literature related to boundary spanning benefits of strong brands.

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Maia, Kênia, and Juliana Costa. "Um estudo sobre a invisibilização de fontes sobre o coronavírus em O Grande Debate." Pauta Geral - Estudos em Jornalismo 7 (2020): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5212/revistapautageral.v.7.17119.115.

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The article aims to reflect on the occurrence of the invisibility of journalistic sources producedby commentators who participate of theO Grande Debate, a CNN BrazilTV show. It reflects on the functions of journalistic sources and their role in spaces of opinion, in addition to tensioning the effects of the occurrence of their invisibility for journalistic credibility. When examining10editionsof the TV show aimed at exploring themes related to the pandemic causedby the new coronavirus, it observes a thematic division and confronts the types of sources used with the theme of eachprogram. At the end, the paperpoints to the occurrence of a shift in credibility of sources

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Bhutta, Dr Muhammad Makkey, Manan Khan Tareen, and Hannan Khan Tareen. "Mapping Credibility Scale of Sources of Political News Stories Through Perception Lenses of Pakistani Youth: Analysis of Governmental vs. Non-Governmental and Conflicting Political News Sources." Volume-04 Issue-2 04, no. 02 (2020): 315–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.36968/jpdc-v04-i02-17.

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Research was designed to evaluate the credibility perception of youth regarding different mainstream and new media sources of political news. This study adopted questionnaire survey method as a research design of the study. The sample was drawn using probability proportional to size (PPS) and random sampling techniques. For the purpose of investigation, 375 respondents from Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan’s approved universities/degree awarding institutions (DAIs) were selected for the purpose of data collection. The findings of the study revealed that in case the respondents are encountered with the conflicting version of political news stories, they considered traditional TV news channels and newspapers as first and second most credible political news sources respectively. Additionally, it was also found that the majority of the youth perceived live streaming of traditional TV news channels and news websites that are associated with the mainstream news sources (traditional TV news channels and newspapers) as first and second most credible online sources of political news respectively. Additionally, this research also found that the majority of the respondents considered non-governmental sources of political news as most credible. Overall, the study concluded that the respondents still perceived traditionally delivered political news as highly credible sources of political news. Key Words: Media Credibility, Political News, Credibility Perception, Mainstream Media, New Media.

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Marttunen, Miika, Timo Salminen, and Jukka Utriainen. "Student evaluations of the credibility and argumentation of online sources." Journal of Educational Research 114, no. 3 (2021): 294–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2021.1929052.

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Dicker, Daniel, Grant Nguyen, Alan D. Lopez, and Christopher J. L. Murray. "Another blow to credibility in published data sources – Author's reply." Lancet 394, no. 10192 (2019): 27–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)31257-7.

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